{"id":379953,"date":"2010-03-02T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=102735"},"modified":"2010-03-02T12:00:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:00:28","slug":"u-s-carriers-are-running-out-of-growth-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/379953","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Carriers Are Running Out of Growth Options"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s hard to grow in a saturated market, but despite 89 percent cell phone penetration<\/a> in the U.S., AT&T managed to pull out some impressive revenue growth over the past three years, not because it has the iPhone but because it’s been buying other companies<\/a>. We’ve written about AT&T’s dependence on the iPhone<\/a>, but this chart from TeleGeography <\/a>illustrating AT&T’s sales growth over the period — on par with service providers in countries where cell phone subscribers are still growing — is tied primarily to Ma Bell’s acquisitions.<\/p>\n

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The companies found in the lower part of the chart, which operate in saturated Western Europe markets, are a glimpse of the future for AT&T and even Verizon as U.S. companies run out of acquisition targets. The carriers hope that machine-to-machine communications<\/a> will save them, but they’re still searching for the right business model<\/a> as well as compelling applications<\/a>. I suppose if times get too tough, there’s always Sprint<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It’s hard to grow in a saturated market, but despite 89 percent cell phone penetration in the U.S., AT&T managed to pull out some impressive revenue growth over the past three years, not because it has the iPhone but because it’s been buying other companies. We’ve written about AT&T’s dependence on the iPhone, but this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2813,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news","category-telecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}